Dade Hayes Finance EditorJames Patterson and Condé Nast are teaming to revive vintage crime fighter The Shadow in a series of books that will also aim to be adapted for the screen.Hachette Book Group imprint Little, Brown will publish the original series, whose first installment is due out in the fall of 2021.
Condé Nast has long controlled licensing for the character via its Street & Smith subsidiary.The Shadow, a signature New York vigilante, originated in the 1930s as a series of pulp novels by Walter B.
Gibson. A popular radio drama based on the books featured the voice of Orson Welles. In 1994, Universal released a feature film adaptation starring Alec Baldwin. “Who can forget The Shadow’s historic tagline, ‘Who knows what evil lurks.
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